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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: FRIDAY NIGHT MORONS

By | January 2005

I will probably get some angry, poorly written e-mails about my cavalier attitude toward the Great American Sports Movie. I want to be clear, though. I don’t hate the genre. I just despise how it is marketed to the public…

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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: FRIDAY NIGHT MORONS

I refused to watch Friday Night Lights because it was being billed as the “best” and most “inspirational” sports film ever made. My response to...

MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: ARE WE THERE YET?

Ice Cube seems to idolize Eddie Murphy. That’s the only explanation I can think of for his career track in movies. He starts off in the successful and...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE NOAH”

THE BOOTLEG FILES: "The Noah" BOOTLEG FILES 061: "The Noah" (1974 psychological drama starring Robert Strauss). LAST SEEN: Broadcast on CUNY-TV in New...

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE NOAH”

The creepiest movie ever made did not require ghouls, slashers, aliens, or CGI trickery to create a brilliant state of viewer unease. All it required was...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE 500 GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME — SORTA

A few months ago “Rolling Stone” did an issue on the 500 greatest songs of all time as voted on by people connected to the music industry (though it...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: LIKE “JAWS”, ONLY STUPID

Well folks, here it is. The column you’ve no doubt all been waiting for. That’s right, we finally got around to watching the mind-blowing “Orca”...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: LIKE “JAWS”, ONLY STUPID

Blair and Bob had to leave before the second film, giving us a head count of 8 as River had shown up right near the end of “Orca”. We quickly rewound...

MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: ELEKTRA

Jennifer Garner is hot. Jennifer Garner looks really hot while kicking ass. The first statement above is an empirical truism. The second statement is...

TALKING PICTURES: GO FISH

“I remember going to the Oregon Coast Museum to interview for a job once, back when they still had Keiko there,” recalls marine biologist Christina...

THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: THE 2004 CON SEASON – A MEMOIR

One of the biggest problems with being a journalist in these ultra-modern times is that you’re constantly in the shadow of Hunter S. Thompson. If you go...

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